What is "majored"

Usage examples of "majored".

Lilly majored in it, of course, because she wanted to be a writer — she wanted to grow.

Lilly majored in it, of course, because she wanted to be a writer—she wanted to grow.

He got his college degree on the GI Bill, majored in criminology, started work on the NOPD as a patrol officer, worked his way up to detective.

He played baseball in college but majored in electronics, and he handled just fine the pressure of being the only man in a house with four females.

The next stop was Antioch in dear old Yellow Springs where I majored in mathematics for reasons you will soon guess.

Mallison that I sold my hardware business, returned to college and majored in cartography and topology.

If Simon Moon majored in mathematics and was so obsessed with numerology, why didn't he ever notice the most significant 23 in mathematical history—the 23 definitions that open Euclid's Geometry?

After completing high school in Huntington, Elizebeth attended Wooster College briefly but was graduated from Hillsdale College in Michigan where she had majored in English.

With this as a lead, two first lieutenants who had majored in English in college, Shimizu and Oda, composed what they thought the plaintext intercept was.

He majored in electrical engineering and mathematics at the University of Michigan and there developed an interest in communications and cryptology.

He'd majored in poli-sci, gotten a commission and served as a naval officer for four years.

He’d done Yale undergrad, where he majored in Russian studies and, as already noted, roomed with a future President.

Why couldn't he have majored in chemistry rather than ancient literature and business?

Lib looked like a girl who had majored in ballet and water-skiing at Miami rather than psychology at Sarah Lawrence.

He studied Slavonic languages and majored in Russian at a level his senior adviser, himself a Russian, termed “bilingual.